I Will Become a Millionaire! Never Let Anyone Tell You What You Can or Cannot Do!

You got a dream? You gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves they want to tell you you can’t do it.

You want something? Go get it! Period!”

The quote above comes from one of my favorite scenes in The Pursuit of Happyness. This powerful scene relates to a tale from my past that Id like to share with you today. It really demonstrates how tiny instances in life can become strong motivators!

From Good Life Better … Getting out of debt isn’t easy but it’s especially hard when you aren’t being honest with yourself about the impact of debt on your life. When you live with something for that long, it becomes invisible, like a bad smell you no longer notice. I had become debt blind. 8 […]

Today I’m going to share some options for setting up a retirement requiring $50k in annual spending. I get a lot of questions like “How can I retire?”, “What can an average person do to retire?”, and so forth. This post should answer a lot of these. There are many ways to retire (of course) […]

Early Retirement Bliss: Getting Your Partner on Board from Abandoned Cubicle via his guest post on Physician on FIRE. In his own words: FIRE … “Early retirement sounds amazing, but what if it doesn’t sound amazing to your partner? That makes things a bit challenging, to say the least. The main thing I’d advise to […]

From PF Geeks … “My dad is a staunch conservative. Growing up, our nightly routine was to watch the O’Reilly Factor with my dad pausing the show every 3 minutes to add his own commentary. That’s the environment I grew up in. I love my dad and I still hold to conservative values, but my perspective […]

From Route To Retire … “It’s time for a little analogy on how a hero’s journey is similar to the path to FIRE! You might notice that in a good number of the hero stories and movies out there a pattern seems to take place. Well, that’s because there’s actually a twelve-step plan they like to […]

From The Smart FI… “Do you know what to expect from your financial baby? Do the returns from your investment portfolio leave you baffled? In this post, I will try to help you make sense of what to expect when you are expecting great things. When I hear anyone talking about financial matters, my ears […]

While there is no way to eliminate risk, a solid financial base and developing hobbies you are passionate about can make these “risky” endeavors much less risky. Make Risky Moves with Little Actual Risk | Heartland on FIRE Related

It’s been a few months since I’ve been gainfully employed after getting laid off over the holidays. What I haven’t mentioned is some of the things gained purely through those 4 weeks of unemployment. Things Gained from Brief Unemployment | Tis But A Moment Related

This month we are celebrating our 4-year anniversary of achieving FIRE). We each got laid off from our startup jobs (within a month of each other) at the beginning of 2015, and since then, we have never looked back. What could have been disastrous for us ended up being a blessing in disguise. Losing our […]

From of The Mastermind Within … “Personal finance is not about what your friends are doing with their money. It’s not about what your siblings are doing with their money. It’s not what I or some other blogger is doing with their money. Becoming financially literate and succeeding with money is something I believe everyone can […]